At this occasion I exchanged some mail with Bertrand
Méheust, who confirmed that I well submarized his thought.

(April 2007)

>Experiencers of NDE are also those who have sleep paralysis

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A recent neurology study show a statistic link between persons who experienced
a NDE and those who have sleep paralysis. So some persons may have a predisposition
for those special consciousness experiences, possibly featuring parapsychological
phenomena (Reference People with Near Death Experiences Can Differ in Sleep-Wake
Control par Kevin R. Nelson (Neurology 2006; 66:1003-1009), a paper published
in the section «Views & Reviews» of the review «Neurology»
de «l'American Academy of Neurology» (issue of April 11, 2006).
Summary
of the paper.)

It would be interesting to find other personnality features in relation with
this, but nothing was found yet (except of course the well know positive after
effects of NDEs, but they are only consequances, not causes)

It is worth noting that, one more time, the authors try a bogus explanation
of NDEs, which would be only a sleep paralysis, giving to think that the person
is dead when she is not. This is really mocking at physicians, all the same
able to differenciate sleep from coma or heart failure!!

(Mars 2007)

Spirituality under the scanner of neurologists

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From different sources I get news of neurological researches made on the brain
of persons who practice meditation or similar techniques. I think that these
researches are in the same time very interesting, naive and dangerous.

Interesting, as they at last remove the moronic taboo, and they allow to scientifically
study what takes place in the brain of people undergoing meditation techniques
or exhibiting parapsychological phenomena. Naive, as they alway look for a material
explanation to facts, which, by definition, are immaterial. As if we were looking
into the hardware of a computer the cause of the artwork the user is creating
with it. And dangerous at last, as, if we too much try to materially explain
what cannot be, we undergo the risk to create «material explanations»
which would lock our understanding much more drastically than the simple censorship.
Frankly, «I had a very enthralling vision of Christ» is clearer
and more complete than «some techniques of mental visualization raise
dopamin», isn't it?

So the scanner or the positron camera unravel which functions of the brain
are active when such episodes take place. Well found, but everything depends
on how we interpret these results. For instance we learn from Dr Andrew Newberg,
head of the
«
Center for Spirituality and the Mind» (University of
Pennsylvany) observed the brain of Pentecotists while they were exhibiting glossolaly
(a strong and easily checkable parapsychology phenomenon which allows a person
to speak a foreign language she never learned), then when these persons were
normally chanting the Gospel. Their language centers were less active in glossolaly
than in chant! And Dr Andrew Newberg to conclude (naïvely I think) that
glossolaly would be produced... by another part of the brain!

November 2006

THE MEHEUST LAWS

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In 1978 was published a small book
which should have changed the face of ufology: «Science-fiction
et soucoupes volantes» (Science-fiction and flying saucers)
by Bertrand Méheust. The thesis is about the scenarios of UFO
sighting (or abduction) are basically onirical scenarios, which origin
is thus into the mind of the witness, or of mankind. For some mysterious
reason, very likely psychophysical, this scenario manifests in a concrete
way to the witness, and even to physical measurement instruments if
there are some nearby. The same functioning would be at work in other
more ancient appearances (fairies, gnomes...) or religious (the Virgin).

Of course this book is today unfindable, out of print, forgotten,
crushed by the Roswell-conspirationnist cacophony and the rout which
followed. However I was able to find one in the «forum international
d'Ufologie» which took place in Graulhet (Tarn, Fance) the 9
and 10 September 2006. This allows be today to present in a simplified
way those famous «Méheust laws» I alluded to in my book
«
General Epistemology»:

1) Ostentation: The phenomenon basically behaves as a mise
en scène toward the witness, as would do an intelligence with
the purpose of showing, of appearing.

2) Elusivity: The phenomenon behaves as with the intent to
elude the confrontation which would allow it to influence society
at a whole. It has an infinite capacity to do so. Example: a «stranded
spaceship» remains all night long in front of the witness, but
it manages to «repair» just before the police comes. In
a general way, witnesses never have evidences (other than psychological
after effects), if there are, they disappear, close witnesses don't
think to take a photo, etc. Never is taken the irreversible step which
would place the whole society in front of an irrefutable evidence
of the existence of the phenomenon (or of what it pretends to show).

3) Adaptation to context: The phenomenon, as a mise en scène,
is adapted to the context: great UFO in nature, small UFO in a bedroom
(and it never gets stuck into a window frame), silvery or black by
day, luminous by night, answering by radio to a radar, on the right
frequency...

4) The phenomenon is meaning bearer (Be careful here that
the word «meaning» is not about the «messages»
of «contactees» neither about philosophical consequences
of the existence of extraterrestrial beings). In place of a physical
phenomenon (natural or artificial) which produces physical effects
(light, heat, sounds, shock) it directly produces images, scenes or
sounds which have a meaning for the witness. The difference is a bit
difficult to grasp, but it is fundamental: the effect of the phenomenon
on a witness or on an object appears like an organized, complete and
flawless, perfectly compliant to the purpose, to the contrary of a
physical action which would necessarily have defects or unwanted after
effects. For instance a healing happens without trace of intervention,
only the concerned organ is put back in a normal state. This behaviour
shows that the phenomenon really have a psychical nature, acting in
a psychophysical way, manipulating objects of our physical reality
as if they were elements of a dream instead of masses of atoms obeying
the laws of physics.

March 2009

New point made clear

(For everybody)

I wrote this theory nearby 10 years ago. Since
this time, other researchers contributed to the advance of this field, and
this called from some revisions of my text. For this reason, I decided to
remove some of the news of this page.

March 2003

UFOS: THE CIA POLICY UNCOVERED

(for everybody)

Morbid hoaxes and spy jiggery-pokery
are far from brilliant side concerns of the scientific search on UFOs,
that we should enjoy not to study, and even not to mention, especially
on this site consecrated to positive things, if they not had a so
nasty impact on this search. So we can put clothespins on our nose
before reading what follows.

Thanks to the FOIAct (Law giving to American citizen the
right of access to certain classified archives) an American ufology
group, the
CUFON,
was able to obtain from the CIA a report about the
Robertson Panel, the CIA committee which, in 1953, decided of
the official policy of the USA about UFOs. (To see the role of the
Army, see this
recent book on Edward Ruppelt)(For USSR, it is still better, the
censorship was organized even without any intervention of the KGB, see
here on the site of the
RIAP)

When I read this document, I was immediately struck by
its amateurism and its subjectivity. The American citizens are treated
with the utmost contempt (they are «psychological», they
can react only with «belief» or panic, and the ufologist
groups are «irresponsible» «to be watched»)
the novlangue is of course rife (to say «to educate» to
mean «to induce an opinion») and worse there is no real
basic reflection on the subject. The robertsonians, who so quickly
pose themselves as judges of the psychological abilities of their
fellow citizen, show themselves a complete lack of rationality, only
selecting the facts which comfort their opinion and rejecting all
the others with the back of their hand. For instance, page 19, two
cases evoke the presence of radioactivity. But in one case, their
would have be a problem with the measurement apparatus. The conclusion,
as instantaneous as incredible, is that there was no radioactivity
in both cases! And it is like that at every page.

And all this to decide that they should «avoid a
panic» and thus forbid to the citizens to know the truth! So
they decided to «educate» and even to «debunk»
(the word is in the text). And, for this educative task, they hired
very serious companies such as... Walt Disney! Yes really, I quite
well remember, at that time, to have seen Donald mocking at peoples
seeing saucers and cigars in the sky! This is completely ridiculous,
and perfectly shameful, as this subversive propaganda was aiming at
young children.

So this terrible Robertson Panel, that ufologists feared
so much, does not hide no powerful politico-military stake, nor colossal
Orwellian conspiration, juste a little session of burying heads in
the sand. It would be very funny if the result had not be so much
human drama (humiliated or intimidated witnesses), half a century
of science in late and the unrecoverable loss of unique evidences.
Worse, the observations themselves are now distorted by these incredible
visions of US army men conspiring with naughty «extraterrestrials»,
a striking evidence of the immense disrepute now attached to these
organizations.

It is now really time to stop this hopeless remnant of
the maccarthyst paranoia. Without forgetting that the incredible hoaxes,
the terrifying books and the racist anti-extraterrestrials movies
could be elements of a much more elaborated and dissimulated plot.
As a matter of fact, we can find in these movies precise allusions
to real cases, and nice archetypal images of the 1960-70' distorted
into visions of destruction and terror. This could be an evidence
of who know what collusion or conspiration of unhealthy minds, with
for purpose to discredit the idea of extraterrestrial encounter, and
even to rotten our dreams!! To know the responsibles, look at who
brings the financial...

This really regrettable situation is what happens when
science refuses to investigate a whole field of reality.